GREGORY v. BOSTON SAFE DEPOSIT AND TRUST COMPANY (1892)

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GREGORY v. BOSTON SAFE DEPOSIT AND TRUST COMPANY
Term: 1891
Important Dates
Argued: April 12, 1892
Decided: April 25, 1892
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar

GREGORY v. BOSTON SAFE DEPOSIT AND TRUST COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 25, 1892. The case was argued before the court on April 12, 1892.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Massachusetts U.S. Circuit for the District of Massachusetts.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1890s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: collateral estoppel or res judicata
  • Petitioner: Stockholder, shareholder, or bondholder
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Creditor, including institution appearing as such; e.g., a finance company
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 144 U.S. 665
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Melville Weston Fuller
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: John Marshall Harlan

These data points were accessed from The Supreme Court Database, which also attempts to categorize the ideological direction of the court's ruling in each case. This case's ruling was categorized as liberal.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Harold J. Spaeth, Lee Epstein, et al., "2023 Supreme Court Database, Version 2023 Release 1 and SCDB Legacy 07," accessed March 21, 2024
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